test-drb February 2002

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by fernande＠internet1.net

Hello, I'm sorting through all my computer supplies, getting ready to move into a house. I haven't actually bought a house yet, but I'm looking. I've got this huge MTI narrow SCSI case that I'd like to sell. It'll hold 4 full height drives. Each drive fits into a steel box that is removable from the main tower. One box is an open face making it perfect for a cd-rom. I did have some troubles with certain drives not liking certain positions in the tower. I'm not sure if it was the drives, the case, or what. After I got everything arranged, it worked fine. Also the scsi select switch needs to be replaced as one bay is stuck on ID#3. This thing is built like a tank, and I love the way it looks but I just don't use it anymore. I'd like to get $50 for it. It will need to be picked up, However. I do need to point out, that this case can not be easily converted to wide scsi, due to the removable steel boxes the drives fit into. No drives included, but I do have a few cables and a terminator or two that can go with it. I'm located in Southwest Michigan. Email me for a more complete location, or for answers to you questions. Chad Fernandez Michigan, USA

24 years, 1 month

Power Series

by csmith＠amdocs.com

> -----Original Message----- > From: Tothwolf [mailto:tothwolf@concentric.net] > On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Christopher Smith wrote: > > Well, on one hand, yes, but on the other hand, I like my > Indigo 2 Elan with > > no texture memory just fine. I'm also considering trying > I didn't know you had another SGI box ;) Yep. > A couple people I've known who ended up with old SGI gear thought they > were going to create some kind of fancy animations with this kind of > hardware, so I never know what to think now. Depends on what you mean by "fancy animations." It will probably do better out of the box than most new peesees depending on what you'd like to animate. (and whether it requires texture memory, of course) Both of my SGIs, for instance, have analog video in/out, which is a start. On the other hand, you can't really do a good animation with anything "out of the box." It usually takes a lot of strange stuff. The graphical prowess of the machines is still something, though. For instance, the ability of the machine to provide individual color-maps for different windows on the screen, without the nasty palette-flashing that's seen in xfree86 on an intel box (for example) when you try the same... > Sounds like you at least have an original VGX chassis then. > It is possible > someone upgraded some of the boards, but the only way you'll > be able to > tell is to pull them and cross reference the part numbers. I'm thinking about doing that. The label on top of the chassis actually says "4D/440 VGX" or something to that effect. Regards, Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); '

24 years, 1 month

SCSI Question

by blstuart＠bellsouth.net

I'm going to claim this is on topic since it's for my SPARCStation2 which is 10 years old. To make a (semi-)long story short, I've come to the conclusion that I need a SCSI1 to SCSI3 adapter with high byte termination to connect a wide IBM SCSI drive to the narrow SCSI controller in my SS2. The only IDC50M to MD68M adapter I've found doesn't have the termination. There's a nice little adapter out there but it's got female connectors on both ends. I could try to assemble something with gender changers, but I'm afraid I'd end up spending more than I did on the drive for a Frankenstien that I'm not even sure would work. So my question is, does anyone know where to find an adapter with male connectors? Or, for that matter, has anyone dealt with this sort of thing and have a better suggestion? Thanks in advance, Brian L. Stuart

24 years, 1 month

OT: PayPal = payola?

by DAW＠yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu

Interesting one here... While composing a reply in Outlook 2001 (on a Mac OSX 10.1.2), I wrote 'PayPal'. Since I have the program check spelling before sending :-) it came up and thought I meant to write 'payola' instead of PayPal. Think M$ is trying to say something? --- David A Woyciesjes --- C & IS Support Specialist --- Yale University Press --- mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu --- (203) 432-0953 --- ICQ # - 905818

24 years, 1 month

IBM PC Server 500

by musicman38＠mindspring.com

Thank You everyone for all the Information on my PC Server 500 find. I found the manual on the IBM site as suggested by a kind soul here. I may just go ahead and see if I can repair the PS, as it did not smoke when it went out, it just popped, so it may be possible as someone suggested that it's just a fuse inside the PS. I now have to locate a special hex screw driver, as the screws are hex with a tiny post in the middle of the screw. However is it anything more than just a Intel Pentium 90 that has 6 SCSI 2.25 Gig hard drives on it ? Can it do anything special other than run RAID ? Thanks again for everyones comments.. Phil..

24 years, 1 month

Teac FD-55B Floppy Oddity

by jcwren＠jcwren.com

My Otronas have FD-55B-01-U drives in them. I thought the drives were fried, since they wouldn't work on the Otrona nor on the PC, but in dinking around, I determined that on at least one drive (and probably the other), the head load solenoid is not pulling in. I see power being applied, but it only looks like +5V. I don't have schematics, and I'm not ready to risk wrecking the drives determining the following question: Should the solenoids pull in on +5 or +12? If I'm seeing +5, I suspect the solenoid driver transistor could be cooked. The solenoid coil is intact, as I'm seeing 44 ohms across it, out of circuit. In either case, I don't feel even the lightest twitch when it's supposed to pull in (and the jumper is in place, for load on motor select). Does anyone have any FD-55B (these are the 360K DS-DD 48 TPI) drives they'd like to part with, either to see an Otrona running, or in exchange for ye olde green stuffe? --John

24 years, 1 month

Need Shugart 851 manual

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

I need a Shugart 851 8" floppy drive manual. Does anyone have one that hey'll loan me or make a copy of it for me? Or does anyone have a pointer to an on-line copy? I have a bunch of 851 drives and I need to see how to configure them to use in place of Shugart 800 drives. Joe

24 years, 2 months

DECdatasystems

by jss＠subatomix.com

I have just acquired part of a DECdatasystem 570. I have the following questions about it: Why did DEC repackage their PDP-11s this way? When were the various DECdatasystem models released? How do they fit in with the rest of DEC's product line, and how were they marketed? -- Jeffrey S. Sharp jss(a)subatomix.com

24 years, 2 months

Need paper tape encoding format

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Feb 28, 11:50, Vintage Computer Festival wrote: > > Is there info somewhere that shows how symbols are encoded onto paper > tape? > > Ideally it would include the actual hole positions like so: > > 8 4 2 1 > A: * > B: * > C: * * > > (Note: this is not an actual example but just an example of the format > I'm looking for. Of course.) Lots of unix (including many BSD/Linux) systems have a program called ppt (usually in /usr/bin/games or similar) which takes an ASCII string and outputs a facsimile of paper tape. The dormat is just ASCII in binary form, with columns arranged exactly as your little sample above, except there are 8 columns, and a hole represents a '1'. What you do with the 8th coulmn depends; on PDP-8 systems the top bit was often set for ASCII (but it has special significance to binary loaders), on some systems it would be unused, on others it would be the parity bit. Do a Google search for "ppt paper tape" and you'll find info about "ppt". -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

24 years, 2 months

NYTimes: A Long Time Ago, in a Lab Far Away...

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> From New York Times > A Long Time Ago, in a Lab Far Away . . . The Stewart Brand-penned article for Rolling Stone may be found at: http://www.wheels.org/spacewar/stone/rolling_stone.html -dq

24 years, 2 months

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test-drb February 2002